Jython, GILs and object locking.

[John J. Lee]

Michael Chermside <mcherm at mcherm.com> writes:
[...]
> But if you DO have a task which is compute bound, and it's
> the only task running on the machine, and the machine has
> multiple processors, and if you particularly care to have
> this task run faster, well then Python is not up to the
> job because of the GIL. Of course, you should look into
[...]

That's still too strong, even given your proviso about using C++.
First, the code you're already using may already parallelize well
enough thanks to C code releasing the GIL.  Second, using something
like POSH, or splitting up your threads into bunches, in separate
processes, also works.  Not perfect, of course.


John